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Digital Security Research Collaboratory Neu-Ulm @dsrc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

When a 16-year-old attacked his former school in Schongau on 8 July, the 19-page manifesto made headlines. What didn't: 135 posts he left on an incel forum. The account is gone now, but we archived it first. (CW: extremism, misogyny, violence) 1/7

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Digital Security Research Collaboratory Neu-Ulm @dsrc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

On 31 July 2026 a Munich court ruled that Suno had trained its music AI on protected songs like "Atemlos durch die Nacht" without a licence, storing them in the model. Our ECIS 2026 short paper asks: what if you caught that before training? By @riekers.bsky.social & @risius.bsky.social 1/9

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Digital Security Research Collaboratory Neu-Ulm @dsrc.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Looksmaxxing is often framed as self-improvement. But when does optimizing one’s appearance become a worldview that explains almost everything? Our colleague Christopher David discussed this in a recent #Tagesthemen segment on ARD, Germany’s largest public broadcaster. 1/5

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Digital Security Research Collaboratory Neu-Ulm @dsrc.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

How does extremist ideology travel into mainstream TikTok feeds - without looking like classic extremist propaganda? 👀 A Thread 🧵 1/10

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Marten Risius @risius.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

In short: Not what we had expected. We find people's responses don't get more accurate but at least they search more thoroughly. So we keep working on this and update you as we go!

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Digital Security Research Collaboratory Neu-Ulm @dsrc.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

AI-powered “looksmaxxing” apps are increasingly appearing in mainstream platform environments. Marketed as self-improvement tools, they promise facial ratings, attractiveness scores and advice on how to “optimise” appearance. 1/5

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Marten Risius @risius.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

We're trying to shed some light into the debate around age verification technologies and how it can be implemented while protecting user privacy.

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Marten Risius @risius.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

In this line of research we consider trust & safety issues from a broader information warfare (IW) perspective. Turns out, the term IW is used quite loosly ... and now we start talking about other types of warfare. In this paper @afrenzel.bsky.social gives an overview over common IW practices

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Marten Risius @risius.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I am becoming a "safety by design" advocate Two key members of OpenAI’s “Superalignment” team [...] quit in 2024, saying the company emphasized financial gain over minimizing the dangers [...]" www.semafor.com/article/02/1...

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Anthropic safety researcher quits, warning ‘world is in peril’

Other AI safety researchers have also left leading firms, citing concerns about potentially catastrophic risks.

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Marten Risius @risius.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Ever wondered how Incels and RWEs gatekeep new members online? We did! We find two fundamentally different ways in which members socialize in these extremist communities. Intriguing work by @cvdavid.bsky.social!

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Marten Risius @risius.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I know there is a vivid debate around how to operationalize hate speech. Not sure I agree with TT-US' understanding of what constitutes hateful content: zeteo.com/p/trump-tikt...

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The Disastrous Rollout of the Trump-Approved TikTok Serves as a Stark Warning for Us All

Big Tech platforms wield far too much power over our information landscape to continue operating without transparency.

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Marten Risius @risius.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

If you're working or researching hate speech issues, consider joining this free 1-hour Violence Prevention Network webinar where we present our tool maxplain.com that supports the legal assessment of potentially hateful images: www.surveymonkey.com/r/eoohwebinar

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AI For Good? An EOOH Webinar

Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free.

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GNET @gnetresearch.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

As part of GNET’s series aligning with the UN’s 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, Christopher David & @risius.bsky.social examine how Stormfront’s ideological unity is eroding as members increasingly diverge in their conceptualisations of white women. @dsrc.bsky.social

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Fractures on the (Storm-)Front: Contesting the Role of Women in White Supremacy - GNET

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Marten Risius @risius.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

@riekers.bsky.social is doing awesome work using multi-agent systems, in this case to detect hate speech in memes. Quite a challenging task but a promising approach and much more to come. Reach out if you're interested or struggling to find explainable AI solutions for multimodal applications

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Lisa Oswald @lfoswaldo.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

We have a new preprint: osf.io/preprints/so... What have we learned about social media - the constantly moving target of empirical research - over the past decade?

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Marten Risius @risius.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

While prebunking has mostly been used in the disinformation context, @marcoduerr.bsky.social explores its potential for dealing with other kinds of harm - in this case authoritarian attitudes. While these preliminary results are promising, we work to further refine these interventions.

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Marten Risius @risius.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Soooooo ... are we now embracing research?... 👁️

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Marten Risius @risius.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Published 2025 but maybe already outdated? The rapid advance of AI and the fundamental shifts to our (increasingly hyperpersonalized) information environment, we might have to revisit this sooner than expected.

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Marten Risius @risius.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

“The world will be Tlön.” - Jorge Luis Borges, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1940)

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Marten Risius @risius.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

This is where we will share most of our work, for anyone interested in #TrustandSafety reserach

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Marten Risius @risius.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

It's a correlation, but it might indicate the value of proper content moderation

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